AN: Thank you for the reviews ^^! And I am so sorry that I didn't write
sooner! I was supposed to! *bops self on head*
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Kagome sat on the back seat of the bus; folding her small hands onto her lap, turning on her CD-man. She looked outside the window and gazed at the irony of leaving. As a kid, she would have cried if she left her neighbourhood, for she had known it since birth. But now, when she really thought about it, she was glad to be going away, even though she'd lived in that place for nearly 9 years. Kagome decided not to think about it anymore and quickly left her thoughts. She closed her eyes, hoping sleep would come and take her, even though for just a few minutes. The drive was going to be long and hard. Unit F was placed far away from the usual orphanage.
Nobody else came on the bus, so it was only her; that was good, that meant that no idiot would go and bother her and ask her about what she had done or what happened to her. She hated those kind of people; they always got on her nerves. The worst thing was that if somehow she told them that she didn't want them to bother her, they'd ask her even more questions.
Useless people, she thought, I bet that whoever created the human race is looking down in pity upon us right now, crying at how much stupidness goes around the world.
Kagome smirked at her thought and continued to listen to the CD. She heard the soft rumbling of the bus's machine; it angered her. She wanted to scream out loud "shut up!", but there would be no use in doing that; so all she could do was turn up the volume of her CD-man again to max.
Minutes passed by and Kagome was getting slightly bored; she wanted to pull a prank on somebody to make her laugh at their idiotic reactions to everything. Too bad that kid in room 114 wasn't here, that girl always believed what she said; whether it was aliens coming into the land, or saying that the head of the orphanage was really a murderer and that she should try attacking her. No matter what, trouble was always there when Kagome approached her; it was fun to see her getting lectured at; even more fun to see the look on her face when she found out that Kagome had betrayed her yet again.
Many said that she liked playing with people's minds, toying with them as if they were cat and mouse and she was the predator. Since when had she been like this? she had once asked herself, but to no avail of her own. She cringed at the thought of having a previous self, she liked who she was now; which was at the horror of everyone else. She didn't want to change, changing was only for those that weren't sure of who they were, people with no pride, people that had nothing better to do than look at themselves and think something else.
"Miss!" the bus driver called out.
Kagome ignored him, he was so annoying; bothering her when she was in the middle of things. She wanted to go over there and tell him to shut his trap. Annoying little pest.
"MISS!"
"What is it?" Kagome cried out. She was annoyed as heck.
"We're here." By now he was shaking a little, scared at the angry outburst that the young woman had performed. He opened the door to her and saw the expression on her face before she went out. What he saw was fear.
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"Everyone! Gather up!" the head of the unit called out to everyone in "F" to line up. They were going to welcome the new girl. A few murmurs could be heard around the crowd, people wondering about who she was, what she looked like, what she'd done to get into the worst of the worst; as they liked to call it.
Kagome stepped into the room, holding the handles of her bag tightly until her knuckles turned white. Her eyes searched around the area, the icy blue of them looking like lasers, trying to pierce through something un-seeable.
"Oh my God!" someone cried out in the crowd. They stared at her, interested to see at the commotion.
"What are you all looking at?" Kagome sneered at them and rolled her eyes.
"Pretty, aren't you?" a guy came up to her and examined her face, he held it in the angle of his forefinger and thumb.
Kagome slapped it away and gave him a menacing look, earning a few more gasps from the crowd.
"Where's my room?" Kagome asked the head of the unit. She wanted to go into it immediately, away from everyone here.
"Here in Unit F we don't have the luxury of those things you call rooms. We all sleep in the same quarters, we eat with each other and we even do laundry with eachother." The woman spoke with a slow Southern drawl. She emphasized on the letter "F" as if she was happy that everyone was in the unit so they would get tortured.
"I demand my own room." Kagome wasn't backing down, she wasn't going to sleep with other people in the same room; that was uncivilized, disgusting, and low. The worst thing would be if she had to share a bed with someone. Then they would be up all night talking about some stupid thing like "girl talk" or sharing "secrets" with each other. Kagome hated that kind of stuff, she didn't like it how people could just trust one another so easily, hadn't they heard of a thing called manipulation?
"Save it for later, girl," a rough voice could be heard from behind her as the figure put a hand on her shoulder, pushing her away.
"What do you think you're doing?" Kagome was furious, no-one ever did anything like that to her of all people.
"Look what we have here, feh! Arrogance on the first day even, you're going to be hated here." The figure clicked his fingers and immediately half of the crowd was behind him.
"You think you're the only one that could do that, huh?" Another guy clicked his fingers too and the remaining half of the people formed a line behind him.
"What is this?" Kagome asked, unimpressed, faking a small yawn. So they had groups in the unit? That would add to all the fun.
"Welcome to unit F" one of the two guys said sarcastically.
"Don't mind them, girl, I'll always be by your side!" Kagome turned around, surprised to see that there was still someone left over. It was that idiot from a few minutes ago; the one that dared to touch her face. Kagome was about to push him away again, but a thought raced up in her head.
You can use him, Kagome, he seems pretty obsessed with you, so why not use him as a tool? Maybe one day you could overcome those two bastards in front of you. The voice lingered on for a while in Kagome's head as she steamed up with a plan.
"Of course you'll always be by me. What's your name, might I ask, o brave one?" Kagome asked mockingly; nobody noticed though. Their motuhs were just agape about what she had just said.
"Kouga, my lady, my name is Kouga."
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The rest of the day went on usually, everyone ignored her, not bothering to talk to her, except for Kouga that followed her around 24/7. She didn't mind these people, she didn't mind them at all, for they were smart enough to stay out of her way. Kagome looked at the rusted clock that was pinned onto the celing. Its second hand was ticing by slowly, only 1 more minute left until dinner was ready to be served. And after that, they would have to go to bed.
Kagome was tired by this time, the attendants had forced her to run five laps around the court of the unit, just to see what her physical capabilities were. She showed them all right, showed them good, showed them until they didn't know what lap they were counting anymore because she was too fast. Her smirk widened as she remembered their faces. Kagome sat down on a chair, waiting for the bell to ring.
"Hi." A girl said as she sat down on the chair next to Kagome. She was around her height, maybe a little shorter.
"What are you doing?" Kagome asked, she hated it when people didn't ask for permission to sit down next to her.
"I'm sitting, what did you think I was doing? It's a public place, not your's. God knows what could happen if you were the one that owned this unit." The girl didn't seem to get angry though, she said everything in a matter of factly voice, something which irritated Kagome's bones.
"But-"
Kagome was intercepted by the bell.
"I'll see you later, I guess!" the girl smiled at Kagome, a warm one too, not the ones she usually got. Kagome had gotten so used to people smirking at her that she had pinched herself in the arm.
She quickly got up and walked slowly over to the mess-hall, as they dubbed it. The hall had no lights in it, dinner was served by candle-light. Funny how some people said that candle-light was the atmosphere of romantic intuitions or other stuff like that; Kagome found no pleasure with eating like that.
She sat on her own table, it was vast and wide, and the best thing was that nobody had occupied it yet.
"Hey! It's you again!" Kagome looked up and saw the girl she had met earlier. Was she actually daring enough to sit near her again? What was wrong with her?
Kagome didn't reply.
"Actually, this is the place where we normally sit, but if it's fine with you, we'll join you!" the girl got a grunt from Kagome, which she thought was a sign for "yes". She put her tray down onto the table and started eating.
"Oh yeh! What's your name?" the girl asked through muffled chomps.
"Kagome, Kagome Higurashi."
"Such a pretty name! I wish mine were like that. Oh well, I guess some of us aren't as lucky as others. My name is Sango."
"That's it?" Kagome asked, surprised that the girl didn't have a last name.
"Well, I abandoned my last name years ago when I found out that the reason my parents dumped me in this orphanage was that they had a baby boy to satisfy their needs, not at all what they told me. For a while I believe their lies, they said that they put me here because they wanted me to have a better life without them, that I was going to be special, that they didn't have enough money to raise me. But when I turned 6, I accidentally heard a conversation about me, the people in it said that I was here because my parents just didn't want me. So I trashed my last name because of that. I wasn't proud anymore of who I was, an unwanted kid and everything, so I thought I didn't deserve to have a family name."
Kagome stared at Sango for a while, a part of her heart feeling a little pity for her, the way she told her story, it was as if she didn't mind at all the things that had been happening in her life. As if she'd moved on from the past, perhaps, for once in her life, Kagome felt a little respect towards another human-being. She had done something that Kagome could never have done, and that was to let go.
"OI! Sango, what the hell is that wench doing here?"
"First of all, Inu-yasha, she is NOT a wench. She's new here so give her a little credit. And no, to answer your second question that's going to come up in another minute, we will not push her off the table. She can join us whenever she likes."
"Feh! I'll push her off myself!" Inu-yasha growled again, staring at Kagome murderously.
"Hey! Inu-yasha, be nice to her, she's a lady after all," someone came up from behind Inu-yasha, patting his back while smiling at her, "and a cute one too! Hi, I'm Miroku." Miroku extended a hand towards Kagome, winking at her a little.
"You do that one more time I'm going to kill you, Miroku!" Sango hit the boy on the head playfully and turned towards Kagome. "Don't worry about him, he's a little lecherous."
Kagome just nodded.
"Well, that's basically it for this group. There's another one coming in but he won't be here until tomorrow, he was just in the infirmary last night because that idiot Sesshoumaru decided to beat him up again." Sango looked away wistfully.
"Who's Sesshoumaru?" Kagome asked.
"Oh, you'll meet him, he's Inu-yasha's half-brother. They're enemies, both of them; so that's why Sesshoumaru decided to give a few punches to Inu- yasha's friends." Flames could be seen craving in Sango's deep brown eyes.
"Hey, calm down a little, at least he didn't kill him." Miroku said as he tried to recounsel her.
"Yeh, at least not yet."
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Dinner was over in an hour, Kagome left quietly and walked on over to the small room that all the kids were supposed to fit in. Suddenly, a boomerang voice could be heard in the loud speakers. Kagome jumped and covered her ears.
"Allright everyone, as I've said before, we're going to be arranging bunk mates for the rest of the year. I'm gonna read out your list,"
A few murmurs of excitement could be heard.
"Shibiza and Bakuna"
"We're bunk mates again!" the two boys high fived each other while one of them climbed up the ladder to the upper bed.
"Misato and Asakii"
The list went on, and everybody's name was called out until four people were left standing in the center of the room.
"Inu-yasha and Miroku."
"Hell yeh!" Inu-yasha grinned as he and Miorku lifted their fists up in the air.
"Finally, Sango and Kagome"
"Ooh! I finally get one of my friends for bunk mate this year!" Sango said excitedly.
"Hey! Sango, wasn't I your friend?" A voice shouted over, clearly Sango's previous bunk-mate.
"You made me stay up all night! I couldn't sleep a wink, but it was fun!" Sango said while laughing, "Let's go, Kagome!"
Kagome lifted her eyebrows in confusion, ".Friend?" she whispered into the air.
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AN: fine fine, so the chapter wasn't as great and I disappointed everyone, but I tried! I really did! Please review, and I swear I won't be as slow in updating as before ^______^
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Kagome sat on the back seat of the bus; folding her small hands onto her lap, turning on her CD-man. She looked outside the window and gazed at the irony of leaving. As a kid, she would have cried if she left her neighbourhood, for she had known it since birth. But now, when she really thought about it, she was glad to be going away, even though she'd lived in that place for nearly 9 years. Kagome decided not to think about it anymore and quickly left her thoughts. She closed her eyes, hoping sleep would come and take her, even though for just a few minutes. The drive was going to be long and hard. Unit F was placed far away from the usual orphanage.
Nobody else came on the bus, so it was only her; that was good, that meant that no idiot would go and bother her and ask her about what she had done or what happened to her. She hated those kind of people; they always got on her nerves. The worst thing was that if somehow she told them that she didn't want them to bother her, they'd ask her even more questions.
Useless people, she thought, I bet that whoever created the human race is looking down in pity upon us right now, crying at how much stupidness goes around the world.
Kagome smirked at her thought and continued to listen to the CD. She heard the soft rumbling of the bus's machine; it angered her. She wanted to scream out loud "shut up!", but there would be no use in doing that; so all she could do was turn up the volume of her CD-man again to max.
Minutes passed by and Kagome was getting slightly bored; she wanted to pull a prank on somebody to make her laugh at their idiotic reactions to everything. Too bad that kid in room 114 wasn't here, that girl always believed what she said; whether it was aliens coming into the land, or saying that the head of the orphanage was really a murderer and that she should try attacking her. No matter what, trouble was always there when Kagome approached her; it was fun to see her getting lectured at; even more fun to see the look on her face when she found out that Kagome had betrayed her yet again.
Many said that she liked playing with people's minds, toying with them as if they were cat and mouse and she was the predator. Since when had she been like this? she had once asked herself, but to no avail of her own. She cringed at the thought of having a previous self, she liked who she was now; which was at the horror of everyone else. She didn't want to change, changing was only for those that weren't sure of who they were, people with no pride, people that had nothing better to do than look at themselves and think something else.
"Miss!" the bus driver called out.
Kagome ignored him, he was so annoying; bothering her when she was in the middle of things. She wanted to go over there and tell him to shut his trap. Annoying little pest.
"MISS!"
"What is it?" Kagome cried out. She was annoyed as heck.
"We're here." By now he was shaking a little, scared at the angry outburst that the young woman had performed. He opened the door to her and saw the expression on her face before she went out. What he saw was fear.
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"Everyone! Gather up!" the head of the unit called out to everyone in "F" to line up. They were going to welcome the new girl. A few murmurs could be heard around the crowd, people wondering about who she was, what she looked like, what she'd done to get into the worst of the worst; as they liked to call it.
Kagome stepped into the room, holding the handles of her bag tightly until her knuckles turned white. Her eyes searched around the area, the icy blue of them looking like lasers, trying to pierce through something un-seeable.
"Oh my God!" someone cried out in the crowd. They stared at her, interested to see at the commotion.
"What are you all looking at?" Kagome sneered at them and rolled her eyes.
"Pretty, aren't you?" a guy came up to her and examined her face, he held it in the angle of his forefinger and thumb.
Kagome slapped it away and gave him a menacing look, earning a few more gasps from the crowd.
"Where's my room?" Kagome asked the head of the unit. She wanted to go into it immediately, away from everyone here.
"Here in Unit F we don't have the luxury of those things you call rooms. We all sleep in the same quarters, we eat with each other and we even do laundry with eachother." The woman spoke with a slow Southern drawl. She emphasized on the letter "F" as if she was happy that everyone was in the unit so they would get tortured.
"I demand my own room." Kagome wasn't backing down, she wasn't going to sleep with other people in the same room; that was uncivilized, disgusting, and low. The worst thing would be if she had to share a bed with someone. Then they would be up all night talking about some stupid thing like "girl talk" or sharing "secrets" with each other. Kagome hated that kind of stuff, she didn't like it how people could just trust one another so easily, hadn't they heard of a thing called manipulation?
"Save it for later, girl," a rough voice could be heard from behind her as the figure put a hand on her shoulder, pushing her away.
"What do you think you're doing?" Kagome was furious, no-one ever did anything like that to her of all people.
"Look what we have here, feh! Arrogance on the first day even, you're going to be hated here." The figure clicked his fingers and immediately half of the crowd was behind him.
"You think you're the only one that could do that, huh?" Another guy clicked his fingers too and the remaining half of the people formed a line behind him.
"What is this?" Kagome asked, unimpressed, faking a small yawn. So they had groups in the unit? That would add to all the fun.
"Welcome to unit F" one of the two guys said sarcastically.
"Don't mind them, girl, I'll always be by your side!" Kagome turned around, surprised to see that there was still someone left over. It was that idiot from a few minutes ago; the one that dared to touch her face. Kagome was about to push him away again, but a thought raced up in her head.
You can use him, Kagome, he seems pretty obsessed with you, so why not use him as a tool? Maybe one day you could overcome those two bastards in front of you. The voice lingered on for a while in Kagome's head as she steamed up with a plan.
"Of course you'll always be by me. What's your name, might I ask, o brave one?" Kagome asked mockingly; nobody noticed though. Their motuhs were just agape about what she had just said.
"Kouga, my lady, my name is Kouga."
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The rest of the day went on usually, everyone ignored her, not bothering to talk to her, except for Kouga that followed her around 24/7. She didn't mind these people, she didn't mind them at all, for they were smart enough to stay out of her way. Kagome looked at the rusted clock that was pinned onto the celing. Its second hand was ticing by slowly, only 1 more minute left until dinner was ready to be served. And after that, they would have to go to bed.
Kagome was tired by this time, the attendants had forced her to run five laps around the court of the unit, just to see what her physical capabilities were. She showed them all right, showed them good, showed them until they didn't know what lap they were counting anymore because she was too fast. Her smirk widened as she remembered their faces. Kagome sat down on a chair, waiting for the bell to ring.
"Hi." A girl said as she sat down on the chair next to Kagome. She was around her height, maybe a little shorter.
"What are you doing?" Kagome asked, she hated it when people didn't ask for permission to sit down next to her.
"I'm sitting, what did you think I was doing? It's a public place, not your's. God knows what could happen if you were the one that owned this unit." The girl didn't seem to get angry though, she said everything in a matter of factly voice, something which irritated Kagome's bones.
"But-"
Kagome was intercepted by the bell.
"I'll see you later, I guess!" the girl smiled at Kagome, a warm one too, not the ones she usually got. Kagome had gotten so used to people smirking at her that she had pinched herself in the arm.
She quickly got up and walked slowly over to the mess-hall, as they dubbed it. The hall had no lights in it, dinner was served by candle-light. Funny how some people said that candle-light was the atmosphere of romantic intuitions or other stuff like that; Kagome found no pleasure with eating like that.
She sat on her own table, it was vast and wide, and the best thing was that nobody had occupied it yet.
"Hey! It's you again!" Kagome looked up and saw the girl she had met earlier. Was she actually daring enough to sit near her again? What was wrong with her?
Kagome didn't reply.
"Actually, this is the place where we normally sit, but if it's fine with you, we'll join you!" the girl got a grunt from Kagome, which she thought was a sign for "yes". She put her tray down onto the table and started eating.
"Oh yeh! What's your name?" the girl asked through muffled chomps.
"Kagome, Kagome Higurashi."
"Such a pretty name! I wish mine were like that. Oh well, I guess some of us aren't as lucky as others. My name is Sango."
"That's it?" Kagome asked, surprised that the girl didn't have a last name.
"Well, I abandoned my last name years ago when I found out that the reason my parents dumped me in this orphanage was that they had a baby boy to satisfy their needs, not at all what they told me. For a while I believe their lies, they said that they put me here because they wanted me to have a better life without them, that I was going to be special, that they didn't have enough money to raise me. But when I turned 6, I accidentally heard a conversation about me, the people in it said that I was here because my parents just didn't want me. So I trashed my last name because of that. I wasn't proud anymore of who I was, an unwanted kid and everything, so I thought I didn't deserve to have a family name."
Kagome stared at Sango for a while, a part of her heart feeling a little pity for her, the way she told her story, it was as if she didn't mind at all the things that had been happening in her life. As if she'd moved on from the past, perhaps, for once in her life, Kagome felt a little respect towards another human-being. She had done something that Kagome could never have done, and that was to let go.
"OI! Sango, what the hell is that wench doing here?"
"First of all, Inu-yasha, she is NOT a wench. She's new here so give her a little credit. And no, to answer your second question that's going to come up in another minute, we will not push her off the table. She can join us whenever she likes."
"Feh! I'll push her off myself!" Inu-yasha growled again, staring at Kagome murderously.
"Hey! Inu-yasha, be nice to her, she's a lady after all," someone came up from behind Inu-yasha, patting his back while smiling at her, "and a cute one too! Hi, I'm Miroku." Miroku extended a hand towards Kagome, winking at her a little.
"You do that one more time I'm going to kill you, Miroku!" Sango hit the boy on the head playfully and turned towards Kagome. "Don't worry about him, he's a little lecherous."
Kagome just nodded.
"Well, that's basically it for this group. There's another one coming in but he won't be here until tomorrow, he was just in the infirmary last night because that idiot Sesshoumaru decided to beat him up again." Sango looked away wistfully.
"Who's Sesshoumaru?" Kagome asked.
"Oh, you'll meet him, he's Inu-yasha's half-brother. They're enemies, both of them; so that's why Sesshoumaru decided to give a few punches to Inu- yasha's friends." Flames could be seen craving in Sango's deep brown eyes.
"Hey, calm down a little, at least he didn't kill him." Miroku said as he tried to recounsel her.
"Yeh, at least not yet."
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Dinner was over in an hour, Kagome left quietly and walked on over to the small room that all the kids were supposed to fit in. Suddenly, a boomerang voice could be heard in the loud speakers. Kagome jumped and covered her ears.
"Allright everyone, as I've said before, we're going to be arranging bunk mates for the rest of the year. I'm gonna read out your list,"
A few murmurs of excitement could be heard.
"Shibiza and Bakuna"
"We're bunk mates again!" the two boys high fived each other while one of them climbed up the ladder to the upper bed.
"Misato and Asakii"
The list went on, and everybody's name was called out until four people were left standing in the center of the room.
"Inu-yasha and Miroku."
"Hell yeh!" Inu-yasha grinned as he and Miorku lifted their fists up in the air.
"Finally, Sango and Kagome"
"Ooh! I finally get one of my friends for bunk mate this year!" Sango said excitedly.
"Hey! Sango, wasn't I your friend?" A voice shouted over, clearly Sango's previous bunk-mate.
"You made me stay up all night! I couldn't sleep a wink, but it was fun!" Sango said while laughing, "Let's go, Kagome!"
Kagome lifted her eyebrows in confusion, ".Friend?" she whispered into the air.
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AN: fine fine, so the chapter wasn't as great and I disappointed everyone, but I tried! I really did! Please review, and I swear I won't be as slow in updating as before ^______^
